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Obama deftly deflects douchebag heckler:

... turning him into object of internet ridicule.

On the other hand, a librarian holding a "McCain = Bush" sign at a McCain rally is arrested.

The WaPo laments "As Aides Map Aggressive Race, McCain Often Steers Off Course":

As Election Day nears, McCain's campaign is adopting the aggressive, take-no-prisoners style of Karl Rove, the GOP operative who engineered victories for President Bush. The campaign continued the attack Wednesday with a sarcastic television ad deriding Obama as a "celebrity," part of an intensifying effort to cast him as an elitist.

But the sharp-edged approach is being orchestrated for an unpredictable candidate who often chafes at delivering the campaign's message of the day. It is that freewheeling style that has made him popular with voters and cemented his reputation for candor and straight talk.

Poor John McCain! He keeps hiring people who make him do and say the opposite of what he actually wants. His employees insist on tarnishing his sterling record of straight-talking honesty and honor. And he's so freewheeling that he doesn't care. Why should he? He's John McCain, he bleeds integrity. And, OMGOMGOMG, did he ever mention that he was a POW? No, too honorable to mention it? What a saint.

I can't wait to read the WaPo's next hard-hitting McCain story, the one in which they explain how McCain's inability to hire people who will follow his lead or keep him from deviating from his hallowed principles shows that he'll make a great President. His obvious honor and integrity will ensure that, no matter what kind of loathsome shit-slingers he hires, he'll always, deep inside (somewhere where only the press can see), know that he meant to do the right thing.

Fucking idiots.

Title thanks to The Onion.

McCain 1908

FOX News wants to talk about sex scandals. OK, if you insist!

McCain Not a Natural Born Citizen

Hark! I hear the battle cry of the Modern Conservative!

Today's enemy within is the left, both at home and across the globe. And they too are little different from the scheming legislator Theron and the vile Ephori, who were willing—even eager—to see all Sparta kneel before Xerxes, just to gain power.

How is the left today any different? Do they not see their own nation, their own people, their own military as the enemy? Do they not seek to withdraw us from the field, to give the enemy the day?

And just as Sparta was the lynchpin that defended all Greece—that great cradle of democracy—is not the United States today the last bastion of freedom defending Western civilization?

But what care the left for Western civilization? They HATE Western civilization. They hate the men and women who defend it. They hate themselves.

But truly, this analogue is only the beginning — for what happened at Thermopylae may fairly be said to be the reason we are all breathing the fresh air of freedom today:
[many long excerpts of dialog from the movie, 300]

It goes on and on and on and on like this, pausing every screen-full or so to change hands.

Now, this is nothing new, really. Far too many wingnut writers love to dress up and indulge themselves in this faux-heroic fapfapfap-tastic posturing; one fist over their heart, the other clutching their plastic broadsword, all the while bellowing like the windiest kings from Lord Of The Rings about the need for good men to stand! and fight! to the very last ounce! of pure! manly! blood!, to stop the impending breach! of the walls which keep the monstrous unclean hordes! from overrunning! our fair city! Anything (except actually enlisting) to save our great land! So it's not like this guy went through the trouble of coming up with his own style or anything - it's just another few verses in standard wingnut cadence and style. But, even still, this one does have some notable bits.

First, the length is impressive. It takes real commitment to stay in character that long. Secondly, extending such a bold and thoroughly silly metaphor to such length shows much more dedication than I could muster; I'd have given up after the first couple of lines - "woah, this is nuts. My readers can't really be this dumb. Right?" But, most importantly, if you can stand to read to the end, you'll see how Barack Osama Saddam Hussein AntiChrist Madrassa Obama has earned himself an 'X' !

All hail the birth of BOSHAMO-X !

Kneel, bitches !

I just realized that one of the great tools of political blogging has become obsolete: The Hillary Test.

"You wouldn't be so eager to give the President the ability to throw US citizens in jail without charge or trial if Hillary Clinton was President!" just lost a lot of its Oomph!

It's the end of an era.

Watch as our liberal media stammers in disbelief as Gen. Wesley Clark claims that John "Maverick POW War Hero" McCain may not actually have all the national security credentials he says he has.